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The Modern Age

from Hip Hop Original by Gideon Conn

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lyrics

Shoot the breeze take your dreams overseas but please make your peace with the people you leave
Take it easy its 33° in the shade
In the heat of the day
Drinking lemonade under the Colonnade
Watch the mardi gras parade
With the floats going by
Colours costumes and confetti for miles
Couples are sweating dancing close
Hormones in the air everywhere you go
Cornets trombones and saxophones
Swinging with the cymbals and the snare is there
Giving a backbeat so you can move your feet
And shake your hips
like Gladys knight and the pips
In the sixties dancing in the street in Detroit
Martha reeves and the vandellas rocking the joint
Motown was the sound of the times
In the hearts and the minds
An expression of a new generation
Who believed they would see racial equality in their lifetime thanks to dr king and the movement
Working tirelessly for civil rights improvement
Take a leaf out of the book and close the page
Any struggle can be overcome in the modern age

In the modern age anything can be done
In Hollywood Chaplin was the number one
The star did the directing and the musical score
That kind of talent isn't found anymore
He made people feel like they were the only one
They'd orbit him like planets around the sun
His personality was so magnetic
If you'd ever met him you would never forget it
In the film modern times the little tramp gets a job on an assembly line
Which was still a new concept invented by henry ford to make the model T quickly so he could start selling overseas in big numbers it was all about mass production
A car for the people at a price they could afford to pay this philosophy was later ascribed to the Volkswagen beetle and the Austin mini don't be cynical
classic designs stay in style
they remain with us as symbols of their time
Brands influence choice that's here to stay
A precondition of decisions made in the modern age

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from Hip Hop Original, released November 27, 2015

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